Black Teachers Matter

Black Teachers Matter

This is long and beautifully written and totally worth the time… This: “in the early 1980s, the political winds were changing. Ronald Reagan had been elected president, and one of his first education policy initiatives was to commission a report on K-12...
How Kids Learn about Race Stereotypes

How Kids Learn about Race Stereotypes

Most of you already know much of this… but it’s a nice redux (an yet another call to please, for the sake of all that is good, can we please stop with the “colorblindness” idea?). And this (yep — here’s the tie back to integrated...
Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt…

Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt…

Two articles hit my inbox over the past few days that show (again) that familiarity does not, in fact, breed contempt. Quite the opposite.   First, this piece shows, through a longitudinal study using Census Bureau data, that white veterans are more likely to...
Status Quo in School Funding Unacceptable

Status Quo in School Funding Unacceptable

From our Education Secretary: “I hope … that folks see that they have a stake in the success of other people’s children. The reality is you can’t build walls high enough to keep the fate of your kids separate from the fate of the kid down the...
Chronic Absenteeism… and Segregation

Chronic Absenteeism… and Segregation

no surprise: “recent reporting from U.S. News & World Report found that some rich suburban districts receive more federal aid for low-income students than smaller but far poorer districts.” http://www.theatlantic.com/…/long-term-consequence…/498599/…...